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Lot of in Chinese

a lot of · HSK 3

好多 hǎo duō

  1. 好 hǎo good
  2. 多 duō many

公园里有好多人。 There are a lot of people in the park.

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Other ways to say lot of

More words with 好 or 多

How do you say lot of in Chinese?

Lot of in Chinese is 好多 (hǎo duō). You can also say 许多 (xǔ duō), 大批 (dà pī).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.